Email & Calendars2020-10-02T11:03:43+01:00

Email & Calendars

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Email

  • All staff and students are automatically given email accounts on Oxford Nexus, the University’s main central email system.
  • You will be assigned an e-mail addresses of the form: firstname.lastname@oii.ox.ac.uk.  If you also have a college affliation you will also be assigned a college email address alias (e.g firstname.lastname@keble.ox.ac.uk).
  • E-mail sent to either of the address will be delivered to the same inbox.
  • Email client configuration: You can use a wide variety of clients to check you mail. It is straightforward to configure email clients for use with Nexus, and instructions are given on the University’s IT Services site.
  • Webmail:  You can also check you mail via a web browser by visiting the Nexus365 webmail interface.
  • Login using your Oxford single sign-on (SSO) user name and password.
  • You will be allocated a quota of 50GB (at the time of writing).
  • The University and the department assumes that all of their members have, and regularly check, a University e-mail accounts.
  • Tutors and College officials may send vital academic and other information to you by e-mail, and it is your responsibility to ensure that you regularly read your email while you are in Oxford.
  • Remember to check your Junk email folder. Information on Spam Processing available here.

IT Services email information

Much more information is available at: http://help.it.ox.ac.uk/email/index/

Calendars

The OII calendars are available via HTML and ICS. ICS is a global format for calendar files widely being utilized by various calendar and email programs including Google Calendar, Apple iCal, and Microsoft Outlook.
To use the calendar without a client program, follow the “Web page” links below.​

OII General (Room bookings, meetings, foretastes, events, brown bags etc)

  • Web page: Click to view the calendar in your browser.
  • iCal subscription: https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/a825907d3f6541c9877d4b4dd037d548@oii.ox.ac.uk/f6880531ef8a43e99aa31b98591b59a516752762622947311056/calendar.ics​

OII Events

  • Web page: Click to view the calendar in your browser.
  • iCal subscription: https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/7e2d4ca2d62d47138f08694c2d064ff0@oii.ox.ac.uk/97379a0f320a4ffbaeaf13809cc57ac9729206642430555598/calendar.ics

 

Instructions for subscribing using ICS links

MacOS Calendar App

  • Choose “New calendar subscription…” from the File menu.
    Be sure to change the refresh interval, the default is weekly which is too infrequent.
  • Choose your iCloud account for the Location if you want it to appear on multiple Macs.
  • The calendar will then appear in your sidebar in the Calendar app.

Outlook (Windows):

  • Right-click on My Calendars and add a calendar ‘From Internet…’:
  • Then paste the ics link for the calendar into the box